Re: [cobalt-users] Migration From RAQ4r to RAQ550?

[Brian Rahill <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > 1.  If you have webalizer stats that saves the stats in the users folder
> > (i.e. www.domainname.com/~stats/) then these will not be migrated. You'll
> > need to copy them into the web root temporarily for them to migrate
> > correctly (i.e. cp -R /home/sites/www.domain.com/users/stats
> > home/sites/www.domains.com/web/stats)
>
> It should move all directories under web, so this dir wasn't moved at all?

The problem was that it isn't under the web folder.  It's in the users 
folder (so you access it via domain.tld/~stats ). This was done on a 
version of webalizer to keep it away from Frontpage.  If you copy the 
"stats" user over to the web folder, then it migrates fine.

> > 2.  Neomail address books aren't saved (as they don't exist within the 
> site
> > structure) but you can recover them from the old machine.
>
> Do you know what file on the system these live in?

/home/neomail/users/<username>/addressbook


> > 6.  If users on the new box have the same username as ones on the old box
> > then the matching user from the old box will not be imported.
>
> I assume it didn't detect this conflict on import.   I will look into it.

No it didn't but really that's not a big deal. I expected it.

> > 7.  In some cases the email forwarding for some users didn't migrate.  It
> > did for most users, but some it didn't and we couldn't figure out when/why
> > it failed sometimes.
>
> Can you send me the cmu.log for these imports(not to the list) so I can 
> try and figure out why this happened.

I don't have log for these sites anymore. It only happened on two sites and 
we migrated over 100 using your excellent tool.

> Yes, I have started working on the next version of CMU (will be called 
> 2.5x) and the first release with raq550 to raq550 should be ready in a 
> week.  I have to get this done before Bioware fixes the Radeon problems 
> with the NWN Linux client ;)

WOW.  You are the man!  I'm the guy who offered to pay for this feature and 
I'm still good to my word.

My remarks weren't meant as a criticism of your tool at all.  Simply as a 
document to help others who are trying the same thing we did.  I don't know 
how we would have moved the sites without the CMU.  It's awesome!  95% of 
my clients didn't notice a thing!

Brian

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